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• To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.

  Maya Angelou

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

  Epictetus

  Luck, Progress, Working On Yourself

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• Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

  Guy Garvey

  Writing, Lasts, Firsts

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

  Alexander Smith

  Failure, Justice, Success And Failure

  "Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country".

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• Appreciate everything and everyone. Look upon every experience you've ever had, and everyone who's ever played any role in your life, as having been sent to you for your benefit. In this universe, which was created by a divine, organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

  Wayne Dyer

  Appreciate, Roles, Looks

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 10, 2012

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• You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Destiny, Obstacles

  Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen, twitter.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

  Simon Sinek

  Live Life, Inspire, Purpose

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• To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

  Emil Ruder

  Mean, Order, Design

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• It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here.
  
  It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

  Duane Michals

  Reading, White, Waiting

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• The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, One Direction, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

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• I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

  Arsene Wenger

  Kicking It, Balls, Arguing

  "10 ways innovator Arsene Wenger has changed English football forever" by James McNicholas, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2014.

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• The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Giving, Busy

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2014

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• Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

  Michael Pollan

  Beautiful, Design, Miracle

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.18, Random House

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• Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

  Jeff Beck

  Sometimes, Organize, Turns

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Mar 24, 2017

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• In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

  John Polkinghorne

  Happy Accidents, Transparency, Remarkable

  John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale (2009). “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Men, May

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• We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

  John C. Maxwell

  Purpose, Grows

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• No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

  Gary Zukav

  Birth, Life Is, Values

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• Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

  Walt Whitman

  Sorry, Blessed, Return

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

  Carly Simon

  Purple, Discovery, Magic

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• Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

  Michael Servetus

  Men, Patient, Weak

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• One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Real, Party

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.164, Yale University Press

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• Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Thinking, Mental Health

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• Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

  Arnold Bennett

  Littles, Too Much, Human Nature

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding”, p.6, 谷月社

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